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You're complaining that the Unix API is hard to sandbox, and indeed that sandboxing comes with inherent friction. That isn't a flatpak problem. Macos sometimes
by angry_octet 4y ago
You're complaining that the Unix API is hard to sandbox, and indeed that sandboxing comes with inherent friction. That isn't a flatpak problem. Macos sometimes does it better, but it's an unsolved problem.
On Ubuntu we shouldn't have to be forced to accept snap packaging for the browser, but we are. Canonical make a number of shit decisions, chasing some corporate dollars, and using flatpak is something you can do without rebuilding everything yourself.
- mtlmtlmtlmtl 4y agoIt might not be a flatpak problem, but that doesn't make flatpak a better idea. I think the concept is just fundamentally flawed. I'm planning on moving back to Arch or maybe try Guix just to get away from all this Linux trying to be Windows nonsense. I don't like Windows and I think we can do better without imitating it so much, and so poorly. It's weird, I used to think Linux would only ever get better to use, but the more mainstream distros kind of peaked around 2010 in terms of ergonomics for technically minded users. And the experience seems to have become increasingly opaque and frustrating since then, all to chase some desktop adoption that never really materialised anyway, and what do we have to show for it? Greybeards like me are unhappy, nontechnical people still find the OS chafy and inpenetrable.